Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAnguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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You must render: never report.
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The only certainty is death.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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